Postcolonial Moves - Medieval Through Modern (Electronic book text)

In "Orientalism," Edward Said constructed an entire theoretical edifice on an imagined, unified pre-modern "Middle Ages" in Europe. One of the results of this has been that scholars in medieval and early modern studies have been critically assessing the uses of post-colonial and subaltern theoretical perspectives in their fields, and considering what their periods have to say to post-colonial theorists. This book offers a series of essays that explores with specificity the methodological, textual, cultural and historiographic moves required for post-colonial engagements with pre-modern times.